While this is all true, you are neglecting to mention the wild advantages of incumbency. These Dems who skirted in with razor-thin margins immediately become 15-point favorites the day they take office.
Add to that the fact that Dems now control the majority of state governments, which are in charge of drawing up congressional districts.
No one should think for a minute that it's not going to take very hard work to win back the majority.
Rove, you magnificent bastard(?).
Just so. After six years in office, Bush still hadn't even begun to solve the problem of Democrat cheating at the polls. He couldn't even push through a decent voter-ID program. Now it's too late.
Wherever the Democrats take control of state and local governments, that gives them far more opportunities to cheat. They are already probably stealing millions of votes, and now it will get worse. We saw what happened when the clintons and Janet Reno were in charge. They were absolutely shameless. Now they have another opportunity to ensure that elections will be corrupted as much as necessary to keep them in power.